so in the city of homes and other towns in the surrounding, it has been on the ground but we know that because a stream of data hezbollah fighters has been going back to lebanon. we know they are holding funerals and they have this phrase to describe the city center. they say that they died performing their g hardy duty. they don't say where, but everybody knows where they are. and pretty much admitted they are in the area in a recent speech. they are very much invested in this. assad is a strategic ally of hezbollah surveyor on the ground to help them. sort of transforming it into and alawite militia into the patronage is something they are preparing for a worst-case scenario. say someone does this control. if they can maintain a based on the coast, bordering lebanon, then at least they will cut their losses and maintained iranian foothold in syria, where is the primary u.s. object is, on humanitarian issues aside, the primary u.s. objective is really to break the arabian alliance. so then having footholds with the alawite on the coast with the pkk in the north and northeast to be a s